Douglas Trumbull Quotes

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

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• I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Independent

• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Fun
  • Attention

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Science
  • Short

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• I'm a model, but I love to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Model
  • Eat

• Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Attention
  • Sound
  • Influence

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • She

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Want
  • Drummer
  • Tempo

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• For me, you look at the beginning of his career, the man couldn't even make weight. That's how I found out about Henry Cejudo to begin with. 'Oh, Henry Cejudo misses weight again.' I'm like, who's this guy who keeps missing weight. When the UFC signed him, I was like, 'Great, you guys signed another guy who can't make 125.'

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Career

• When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Time
  • Heart
  • She

• The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • Time
  • Technology